How does lemmy fit into the fediverse?

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨pyzn@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Sorry, I am really new to the idea of the fediverse. So, it is about standartisation for social media protocols so I can interact with users on another side that uses the same standard. Does this mean if I post something on lemmy I can find it on Mastodon, or is it only certain features? I guess I dont understand how this applies to the every day use of there application

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bossito@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s not a perfect fit, so if you want to use both Lemmy and Mastodon I strongly advice you to have an account in each.

That said, you can follow Lemmy users or communities on Mastodon, likes made on Mastodon to Lemmy posts equate to upvotes here. If you reply to a comment sent from Mastodon, the Mastodon user will see it. But to fully enjoy both, you need 2 accounts.

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- Bossito@mastodon.green ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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  And this is me again, replying from Mastodon, just to ilustrate what I said 😅
  @pyzn
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  - mephiska@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    kbin user checking in. There's dozens of us out there.
    
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  - pyzn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    woah this is crazy
    
    but it feels weird how many accounts i would still need, i just created one on mastodon.social but your post seems to be on mastodon.green which asked me to create a new account. this seems like its kind of against the idea of ActivityPub
    
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Today@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I started with a lemmy.world account and i was fine with that. Then a couple of weeks ago lemmy.world was down for a day so i made a Mastodon account. It was functional in that i could see the posts about the outage but i don’t care for the layout so I made a lemm.ee account as a backup. They all show me the same stuff.

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skellener@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I think most things are the same just presented in a different format. However, for those using Lemmy apps, they don’t seem to work with kbin, so there are differences.

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Metaright@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
My understanding is that any service that uses ActivityPub can see everything from every other service, unless the developers choose not to show it. As for whether Lemmy's developers choose to show stuff from Mastodon, I'm not really sure.

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- pyzn@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  But arent other services just structured to differently? Like if we have upvotes on lemmy how could they translate to favourites on mastodon.social as a metrik?
  
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It all uses the ActivityPub protocol, so interoperability depends on what end points are used. In this case, favorites on Mastodon and upvotes on Lemmy use the same one as far as I understand it, so they are compatible. If you see a post from a Mastodon user on Lemmy and upvote it, it should translate to a favorite on their end.
    
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  - coldhotman@nrsk.no ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One fav=one upvote afaik. I’m not sure how downvotes work.
    
    The biggest difference is if it’s group or individual-oriented. Lemmy does the post to group thing. Friendica’s group function does the group thing. Friendica also does single actor posts, like Mastodon and the micro bloggers. I’m not sure how they’ve solved the lemmy to mastodon thing, but it was initially not federating because Mastodon didn’t support the group function, or lemmy didn’t support the single actor posts - either or.
    
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  - Metaright@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I don't really know the details of how they would translate from app to app, but I do know that ActivityPub is specifically designed to allow all of its apps to pull the same information. If an app utilizes ActivityPub, it inherently has the capability of displaying all of its components.
    
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ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
They all should be able to speak together, it’s more a question of how each interprets it. I havn’t tested personally but some reports of following lemmy from mastodon results in a firehose of individual comments for a given topic being received.

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